Score! I went to Buchheit at lunch to get potting soil for my first wave of wildflower roots, and quickly scanned the flower seeds just because…because flower seeds. Lo and behold,  they had tons of ‘Goldfinger’ Mexican sunflower! After I paid $2.99 plus 50 cents shipping for 100 of them, but oh, well. I got common rue seeds in that lot, too, for Giant Swallowtail caterpillars. Anyway, I bought seven packs. Meant to grab eight, but I might go get more tomorrow; all in stock seeds are 25% off. Also, C got the flowering “okra” she’d told me about, and some bonus tree mallow because she said it looked like “me”. Bees love mallow, and the blooms look beautiful, so I’m all for it!

I actually got the roots yesterday, but changed my mind and decided not to use garden soil, so they stayed in their bags until I had potting soil. I got five Canada bloodroot, ten Virginia bluebell, and ten wild columbine. I have more Virginia bluebell coming, plus some other stuff, and the guy in WV from whom I got the Virginia snakeroot gave me a great shipping quote for more stuff. Anyway, this is it for now; hopefully, keeping them in the gradge by the window and not watering unless they’re really dry will hold them over until I level out the ground by the creek and get them planted (once the ground won’t re-freeze). They’ll go in Dixie cups and all so if there’s any root development, it won’t be disturbed.

I also watered my house plants tonight, and my volunteer Hypoestes is apparently happy, sharing an overcrowded pot with Peperomia because it’s blooming!